Example sentences of "faster than the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But inflated land prices , which have been rising much faster than the cost of living index , have placed even smallholdings out of reach except for the well-endowed . |
| 2 | From the second column of the table it can be seen that in 1977–8 , before the crisis year of 1979 , the money supply was growing faster than the cost of living . |
| 3 | Indeed , it had been rising much faster than the cost of living for a number of years . |
| 4 | Some organs may grow faster than the rest of the body so that their size increases not only in absolute terms , but also relatively to the rest of the body , which is positive allometry . |
| 5 | The market is growing at over 30% per year — much faster than the rest of the software business , or information technology as a whole . |
| 6 | BLUES ' SCALES Blues Saraceno Blues Saraceno 's metabolic rate must be seven times faster than the rest of mankind 's . |
| 7 | Will my right hon. and learned Friend confirm that the north-west of England is coming out of recession faster than the rest of the country ? |
| 8 | ‘ In my opinion , there is a paradox in that the IT industry is still in the process of accelerating the technology faster than the pull of the market . |
| 9 | The vast project was pushed forward faster than the spanning of the United States or Canada . |
| 10 | As we could go no faster than the pace of the slowest man , Marius and I took his rucksack and FA-MAS to lighten his load . |
| 11 | In the early 1970s the price of investment goods rose slightly faster than the price of output , whereas in the 1960s the price of output had risen about 1 per cent faster than the price of investment goods . |
| 12 | In Lean 's film The Sound Barrier ( 1952 ) , the central character , an engineer , is portrayed as a more deeply ambivalent figure , driven by his ambition to build a plane that goes faster than the speed of sound , seemingly prepared to accept the loss of his son and a pilot in pursuit of his dream , but actually torn by a deep sense of what he has lost . |
| 13 | To get out , they would need to travel faster than the speed of light , which is not allowed by the theory of relativity . |
| 14 | According to the theory of relativity , nothing can travel faster than the speed of light , so there would be a region from which it would be impossible for anything to escape . |
| 15 | I 'd better warn you , they 've a bush telegraph around here that works faster than the speed of light . ’ |
| 16 | Such behaviour is in flat contradiction to the special theory of relativity ( SR ) which requires that no signal should travel faster than the speed of light , c . |
| 17 | Physicists tell us that nothing in the universe can travel faster than the speed of light , and this applies to signals inside a computer , too . |
| 18 | The gradual replacement on ocean routes of sail by steam increased the volume of traffic faster than the number of ships ; steamships could make more journeys in the same time . |
| 19 | From the mid nineteenth century , their number grew consistently faster than the number of suitable openings the backward economy could provide . |
| 20 | In conclusion , I wish to emphasize that all the charge rearrangements discussed in this section occur very fast , much faster than the period of oscillation of the magnetic field . |
| 21 | If companies reacted to early signs of slowdown with large cuts in production and investment , their demand for credit will have fallen sharply , perhaps faster than the supply of credit . |
| 22 | We can assume it in exactly the form stated above or we can relax it to the extent of saying that any influence of A upon B must not propagate between them faster than the velocity of light . |
| 23 | I have several times spoken of an " instantaneous effect upon B as a result of a measurement made on A. Is this not in flagrant contradiction to Einstein 's rule that signals do not travel faster than the velocity of light ? |
| 24 | Therefore , if the Government can finance its expenditure without taxation by some other method , namely through inflation , by creating the additional spending power and infusing it into the economy , that is an ideal solution to an insoluble problem — how to increase public expenditure faster than the rate of increase of the national income without the rest of the community having to surrender any claims or expectations . |
| 25 | Expenditure rose by 40 per cent between 1850 and 1870 , faster than the rate of population growth . |
| 26 | It was like watching a dance of colours that flowed with emotions faster than the light of her vision . |
| 27 | Such speeds are far faster than any hammer blow and considerably faster than the flight of bullets . |